Saluting Kevin Kehily: GAA pays tribute to Cork's first Rebel rock

From player - he won three Munster SFC titles and two All-Stars with Cork - to physical trainer - he trained the Cork hurlers to three All-Irelands in a row in the mid 1970s - Kehily virtually did it all
Saluting Kevin Kehily: GAA pays tribute to Cork's first Rebel rock

Kehily passed away peacefully at his home last Sunday, aged 74.

Mickey Ned O'Sullivan remembers it as the early 1970s, probably the winter of 1972.

Snow fell relentlessly and the windchill barely rose above negative figures. Himself, Kevin Kehily, along with three or four other Physical Education students from their course at Strawberry Hill in London, had been dispatched to Plas y Brenin in Snowdonia, Wales. For five days. With one tent.

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